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 Are you using Celery to process python backend tasks asynchronously? Have you wanted to get insight into their resource consumption and efficiency? Here’s a few useful ways to get insight into Celery performance when running tasks.
For a quick review, Celery lets you turn any Python...Jun. 19, 2013 11:35 AM EDT Reads: 113 |
 In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the Hyper-V enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2. After you review these new capabilities, I’m sure you’ll see why the R2 release is a MAJOR RELEASE – so MUCH MORE than “just another” Service Pack release!
This month, we’ll be releasing ...Jun. 19, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 632 |
 It certainly has been a wild ride thus far for 2013 as we head into the second half. Breaches, hacks, exposures, leaks, along with things like BYOD and SDN should make the next 6 months interesting. From the many headlines in 2012, you’d think organizations would be locked down tight...Jun. 19, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 371 |
 As I started to read this book my plan was to skim through the first 6 chapters and then really dig in starting with chapter 7 App Design. I figured with a year of iOS programming under my belt the first few chapters would just be regurgitating a bunch of stuff I already knew.
To some...Jun. 19, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 441 |
 Interview with CEO Brad Bostic - hc1.com is committed to improving the quality of healthcare while reducing costs. We believe a critical ingredient to averting the current healthcare crisis faced by the US can only occur by improving the way healthcare professionals across the continu...Jun. 19, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 748 |
 n the cloud doesn't matter whether you are running on an Open Source platform or not - it is NOT free because you pay for the service. And for long Open Source project have been funded through the services premiums that you pay. I would argue that Open Source vendors have mastered the ...Jun. 18, 2013 01:36 PM EDT Reads: 938 |
 Back in the good old 1990s we were actually concerned with software application performance factors such as processing power clock speed along with system memory and storage. While memory is still an important determining factor, the questions of microprocessor megahertz and total syst...Jun. 18, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 388 |
 The Government Accountability Office announced that federal agencies are not setting a good precedent in estimating their IT projects. Unfortunately, the data used by these agencies to measure their costs is often incomplete or gathered through word of mouth. Federal organizations woul...Jun. 17, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 779 |
 If you think that small businesses are not an enticing enough target to breach, think again. While the media has certainly upped it’s coverage over the last couple years pertaining to data loss, many of the headlines involved global brands and tens of thousands records…not the corner ...Jun. 17, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,481 |
 As the leader of Netuitive’s dedicated professional services team, I believe I work with some of the best and the brightest in the industry. My team is focused on enabling our IT analytics software to be delivered as a turnkey solution, and we have cut our teeth doing this at the world...Jun. 17, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 960 |
 Recently, there have been an increasing number of cloud-based static code quality analysis tools, or should I say services. A few that I’ve been watching include:
Code Climate consolidates the results from a suite of Ruby static analysis tools into a real-time report, giving teams the...Jun. 6, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,406 |
 Over 81 percent of organizations have suffered at least one IT data breach over the past two years, whilst the Federation of Small Business (FSB) estimate that online criminal activity is currently costing SMEs a combined £785m every year.
The revolutionary concept of cloud hosting, b...Jun. 6, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 189 |
 Ex·ten·si·ble (in programming): Said of a system (e.g., program, file format, programming language, protocol, etc.) designed to easily allow the addition of new features at a later date. (from Dictionary.com)
Whenever I attend a F5 customer or partner gathering, I always ask of thos...Jun. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,086 |
 Nowadays every single CIO, CTO, or business executive that I speak to is captivated by these three new technologies: Big Data, API management and IoTs (Internet of Things). Every single organizational executive that I speak with confirms that they either have current projects that are ...May. 31, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,596 |
 If an article, 10 years after its initial publication date, is featured in several look backs, reviews, Q&As and still gathers reactions and emotional analysis, it can be concluded it must have struck a chord - or in this case - more an open nerve.
In May 2003*, the Harvard Business...May. 31, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,537 |
 This article provides an outline of java bean validation using javax annotations provided in Java EE 6 and Hibernate validator.
As you know modern programming paradigm suggests validating a java bean with annotations. A java bean can be validated in many ways. You can refer to my earl...May. 29, 2013 04:21 PM EDT Reads: 839 |
 During the past month or so, Rich Mogull, analyst and CEO of securosis has published multiple blogs on cloud encryption best practices, specifically in infrastructure clouds. The final blog IaaS Encryption: How to Choose, provides a good opportunity for us to touch and expand on some o...May. 28, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,181 |
 Knowing what Big Data is, is one; knowing what a Big Data strategy is two; knowing how to implement that Big Data strategy is even more difficult. At least, that is how a lot of organizations perceive it. It must be said, in large process-directed organizations, what most of the large ...May. 28, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,136 |
 Hyper-V Replica is our included asynchronous site-to-site VM replication capability for Windows Server 2012 and our free Hyper-V Server 2012 bare-metal enterprise-grade hypervisor. Using Hyper-V Replica, you can quickly implement a cost-effective disaster recovery plan for your busine...May. 25, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,075 |
 While movement to the cloud keeps accelerating, fears about security hang on. Let’s take a look at the most common myths about cloud security that might be holding businesses back from taking advantage of the flexibility and scalability of the cloud model.
This is the piece of “common...May. 24, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,410 |
 “The last time I checked, people do not change their social security numbers very often...”
While in constant debate over data encryption and ease of access, I encountered a train of thought that made my jaw drop. A tradeshow attendee suggested encrypting everything, but just use a we...May. 22, 2013 11:20 AM EDT Reads: 1,255 |
 According to a ComputerWorld article citing a recent Gartner survey, about half the world’s companies will stop providing computing devices to employees and embrace some form of BYOD by 2017. They also noted that about 40% will offer a choice between employee owned or company issued w...May. 21, 2013 03:11 PM EDT Reads: 802 |
 New technologies allow schools, colleges and universities to analyze absolutely everything that happens. From student behavior, testing results, career development of students as well as educational needs based on changing societies. A lot of this data has already been stored and is us...May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,540 |
 When you’re dealing with something as critical as your business infrastructure, you want to be sure that you’ll get what you signed up for. If a company promises something, and you promise your colleagues something based on it, you want it to happen. That’s where the service level agre...May. 14, 2013 01:21 PM EDT Reads: 1,121 |
 The President's State of the Union address made it clear that data security is a top priority to keep personal, business-related and national security information protected.
During the last State of the Union address, President Barack Obama included improving data security on his list...May. 13, 2013 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 931 |
 As the infrastructure cloud market (IaaS and PaaS) continues to grow rapidly, we are seeing quite a few customers who are delivering an application – whether it is a mission-critical or SaaS application – and basing their solution on VMware.
VMware Security Cloud Encryption cloud keyb...May. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,879 |
 Have you heard of products like IBM’s InfoSphere Streams, Tibco’s Event Processing product, or Oracle’s CEP product? All good examples of commercially available stream processing technologies which help you process events in real-time.
I’ve been asked what I consider as “Big Data” ver...May. 11, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,976 |
 Living Social, the popular online discount site, recently experienced a cyber-attack affecting more than 50 million of their customers. Users with a Living Social account received an email explaining the data breach, which included hackers accessing customer user names, email addresses...May. 9, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,868 |
 Do you think that you’re working with “Big Data”? or is it “Small Data”? If you’re asking ad hoc questions of your data, you’ll probably need something that supports “query-response” performance or, in other words, “near real-time”. We’re not talking about batch analytics, but more int...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,310 |
 Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt highlights disruptive technology trends and how they impact education, businesses and media.
The world has gone from only a small group of people having access to information to having everyone in all corners of the globe accessing every piece of...May. 8, 2013 11:29 AM EDT Reads: 379 |
 ViPR is not a technology creation developed in a vacuum instead includes customer feedback, wants and needs. Its core themes are extensible, open and scalable.
What is ViPR addressing?
IT and data infrastructure (server, storage, IO and networking hardware, software) challenges for t...May. 8, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,596 |
 You know those conversations that you have more times than you can count? Well, I recently had one of those at Design West with a very bright software engineer. This poor guy had a number of experiences with static analysis tools that left him with the “compiler warning equivalence” im...May. 8, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,189 |
 Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at cyber firm Mandiant, outlines how cyber spying can lead to physical destruction and perhaps war.
The world needs to develop a deeper understanding of digital defense, spying and war as many still believe espionage is a step below a full-scal...May. 7, 2013 03:33 PM EDT Reads: 316 |
 Back in the misty eons of time, it used to be easy to measure the performance of your application. You’d grab a stopwatch, load up your web application, and see what happend. If it was slow, you’d look at the mess of PHP, HTML and CSS you crammed into index.php and make sure that you w...May. 5, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,472 |
 In-Q-Tel just posted a press release on a recent strategic partnership and technology development agreement with a firm called Apigee. That statement alone is all the savvy technologist needs to know to start diving into Apigee. In-Q-Tel has a reputation for applying lots of focused th...Apr. 28, 2013 09:35 PM EDT Reads: 1,377 |
 What does today's retail banking customer expect from a financial institution, and how can business technology be applied to enhance the overall experience. The latest results from the Cisco Customer Experience Report focused on the retail banking sector.
The global report examined co...Apr. 26, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,260 |
 Simply outsourcing your cloud technology isn’t where the benefits your company can access end. By leveraging your cloud provider for more than just the technology, you can gain a wealth of experience and know-how (read: tech support) that can help your business get more value from you...Apr. 25, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,808 |
 Next week I will be participating in the inaugural session of What’s Next in IT Debate Series, a new program of authentic debates and conversations on key technology topics. Sponsored by IBM, The Debate Series is an ongoing series of social video debates, held on Spreecast.com (a brow...Apr. 25, 2013 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,154 |
 Lori and I were discussing the entire topic of agility the other day, she looking at it from the SDN prospective, and I from the evolutionary perspective for development. While I know there has been a metric ton of writing about the topic, since I’ve used agile development, and find it...Apr. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,422 |
 A very real legal situation is brewing in the wake of the bring your own device phenomena. eDiscovery. You might be familiar with some of the various legal or liability issues that should be addressed with a BYOD policy, like privacy, the loss of personal information, working overtime ...Apr. 24, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,736 |
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